Cloudflare is in the midst of a significant transformation, as it continues to build out the tools developers need to run their applications across a global network of edge locations. Recent moves put the 18-year-old internet security and performance company on a collision course with the industry-dominating hyperscale cloud providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Founded in 2004 by Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, Cloudflare started life as Project Honeypot, a software project that gave website owners the ability to track, but not combat, email spammers.